History & Systems Exam 3 Romanticism and Existentialism Persons to Know

Question 1

Fichte

Answer 1

First to use the term “Ego” - Conscious self

Inspired by Kant’s rationalism.

Question 2

Hegel

Answer 2

Intellectual progress:

Dialectical method: Thesis, Antithesis, Synthesis

Question 3

Rousseau

Answer 3

“Confessions”
Rationalist: seeing people subjectively with feelings, emotions.
Education
All people have dignity at the most base level.

Question 4

Nietzsche

Answer 4

Existentialist
God is dead
We have our own consequences, no help from God :/

Question 5

Dilthey

Answer 5

Against natural science model.

Lived Experience. It’s that there are so many subjective expereinces?

Question 6

Schopenhauer

Answer 6

Pessimist. Will is irrational! The will is an impulse.

Question 7

Von Hartmann

Answer 7

“Philosophy of the Unconscious”.
Determining motivating principle of the self.
3 levels of unconscious: Physiological, Psychic, Absolute